85 Horn Quotes

Following is our list of horn quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about blowing your own horn.

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Famous Horn Quotes

Fill your horns right to the bottom so you can enjoy the last mouthful. — Mary Berry

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! — Ezra Pound

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn. — Charlie Parker

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships. - Peter S. Beagle

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships. — Peter S. Beagle

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again. — George Jones

The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good. — Ogden Nash

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. — William Shakespeare

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out. — Jay McShann

The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk. — Ogden Nash

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather. — Ian Anderson

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns. - Ella Fitzgerald

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns. — Ella Fitzgerald

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. — John Steinbeck

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. — Edmund Spenser

The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail — Irish Proverbs

Short Horn Quotes

  • I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. — Steven Wright
  • Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. — H. L. Mencken
  • Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. — David Amram
  • I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. — Norman Wisdom
  • Cows from over the sea have long horns — Irish Proverbs
  • Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus. — Edmondo De Amicis
  • I love the French horn. — Vanessa Williams
  • A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine. — Dwight L. Moody
  • The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. — Henry Fielding
  • I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. — Herb Alpert

Horn Image Quotes

Horn quote Take the bull by the horns.
Take the bull by the horns.

Toot Your Own Horn Quotes

You never toot your own horn. — Zakk Wylde

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music. — Guy Kawasaki

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane". — Barbra Streisand

If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders. — Geraldine Laybourne

If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon. — Ken Blanchard

Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn and don't wait for anyone to praise you. — Jack Canfield

It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while. — Ken Blanchard

French Horn Quotes

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art? — Franz Schubert

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off. — Ewan McGregor

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? — Desmond Tutu

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect. — Richard Strauss

Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn. — Peter S. Beagle

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. — Jim Coleman

I'm interested in finding sounds and ideas that help bring the audience into the world that we [moviemakes] are all trying to create. Sometimes that's with synthesizers, and sometimes that's with French horns. I love using all of them, depending on the scenario. — Joseph Trapanese

I love the French horn. — Vanessa L. Williams

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More Horn Quotes

Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, “Unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills. — Gary Yourofsky

He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something. — Cristiano Ronaldo

I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say. — Chet Baker

My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power - not with ground forces. — Curtis LeMay

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for. — Tucker Max

Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn. — Jadakiss

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. — Herman Melville

Tomatoes that can sit in the pantry slowly ripening for months without rotting. Plants that can better weather climate change. Mosquitoes that are unable to transmit malaria. Ultra-muscular dogs that make fearsome partners for police and soldiers. Cows that no longer grow horns. These organisms might sound far-fetched, but in fact, they already exist, thanks to gene editing. And they're only the beginning. As I write this, the world around us is being revolutionized by CRISPR, whether we're ready for it or not. — Jennifer Doudna

I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right. — Marvin Gaye

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. — Charlie Parker

Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn. — Johnny Carson

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. — Desiderius Erasmus

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age. — Curtis LeMay

Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper's horn, and far-off, high in the maples, The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence Under a moon waning and worn, broken, Tired with summer. — Sara Teasdale

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns. — Bruce Springsteen

Whatever gets your goat gets your attention. Whatever gets your attention gets your time. Whatever gets your time gets you. Whatever gets you becomes your master. Take care, lest a little thing horn in and get your goat — William Arthur Ward

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn. — Pete Waterman

Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk. — Jim Rohn

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming. — Yukio Mishima

Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou art undone forever. Old anointings will not suffice to impart unction to thy spirit; thine head must have fresh oil poured upon it from the golden horn of the sanctuary, or it will cease from its glory. — Charles Spurgeon

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. — William Blake

Perhaps the image you have of the devil is a cartoon of a man in a red suit with horns a pointy tale and a pitch fork, Satan would love for you to think of him as a harmless cartoon character, but don't be fooled... Satan is anything but harmless. — David Jeremiah

I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening. — Sonny Rollins

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently. — Richard Gere

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.' — Clarence Clemons

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